How a Gaza hospital maintains its accounting and patients amid the Israel-Hamas war
FirstpostThe escalating humanitarian crisis is forcing health-care workers in Gaza to engage in critical emergency planning, reviewing staffing and other resources, dealing with current health demands on top of gruelling new ones, and keeping their own safety in mind Medical care in Gaza has become a casualty of the conflict. The grim accounting system of a Gaza hospital The doctor is adding another name to a long list of “martyrs” in the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel. “Between midnight and noon, 17 martyrs, and five others who died of natural causes, came in,” Dr Nahed Abu Taaema, director of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian territory, tells AFP. “When the fuel runs out, that may mean operating with flashlights or taking care of people with medications that don’t require refrigeration, and certainly not having lab services,” said John Broach, director of the division of emergency medical services and disaster management at UMass Memorial in Worcester, Massachusetts, as reported by the Washington Post.